Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 2 (II), 10/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz

Title:

Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 2 (II), 10/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz

Number of Pages:

29

Description:

Premonitions about the Dallas trip of November, 1963, and the JFK assassination; the transition from JFK to LBJ; Hays-Moyers relationship; LBJ story of internal revenue and a contribution to a Baptist Church; anecdote on admission of Outer Mongolia to the UN relating to Texas; story of Mrs. Hays being robbed; handling church-state relations for LBJ; selected associate director of the Community Relations Service; Governor Faubus; regrets the Southern Manifesto; Faubus helps unseat Hays in the election of 1958; JFK-LBJ transition; Hays-Moyers relationship; Moyers evaluated; relationship with LBJ hurts Hays in Arkansas; SCOPE (Southern Committee on Political Ethics).

Contributor:

Hays, L. Brooks (Lawrence Brooks), 1898-1981

Collection:

LBJ Library Oral Histories

Collection Description:

Go to List of Holdings

Series:

Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories

See Also:

See all online interviews with Brooks Hays

Subject:

1963 transition; Civil rights

Relation:

Go to Interviewee bio page

Rights:

Possibly copyright restricted: see deed at end of transcript for details